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Artists

Lunch Time Reading

M. Lamar is a composer who works across opera, metal, performance, video, sculpture and installation to craft sprawling narratives of radical becomings. Lamar holds a BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute and attended the Yale School of Art, sculpture program, before dropping out to pursue music. Lamar’s work has...

Vetch Poetry Journal is the first submission-based literary journal devoted to poetry by transgender writers. Edited by poets and writers from the Iowa Writers Workshop, the journal is named for the vetch plant, “a hardy legume that is often planted in ditches and other places where ground has been disturbed.”

Casey Legler is best known for being the first woman with a contract as a male Ford Model, the artist/activist and former Olympic swimmer will share her soon to be published book Godspeed: A Memoir at this Lunchtime Reading. Publisher – Atria Books /Simon and Schuster
Legler was...

Lunge Dance Collective is a blossoming young dance collective that promotes collaboration between artists of many different mediums. Founded by Billy Bell, in March of 2010, the goal was to expose young artists to each other, in hopes of creating a stronger network for them to aid one another and start...

“Ms. Johnson makes unadorned, soundly structured, musically adept ballets for a lovely, unpretentious group of dancers.” –Siobhan Burke The New York Times, March 2016
“Lydia Johnson’s choreography continues to impress as a unique fusion of ballet and contemporary dance; her intense focus on musicality has set...

Regina Weichert is a writer, producer, videographer and performance artist. After studying Art History as an undergraduate and Painting and Sculpture as a graduate student, she produced radio, video and print communications for CBS, Fortune 500 companies and museums.
In 2004, Regina contracted Lyme disease, treated it promptly, and was...

MAGDA KACZMARSKA, NYC based dancer | choreographer | teaching artist, was born in Poland but grew up in the southwestern United States where she received her MFA in Dance Performance & Choreography from the University of Arizona and her BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. Drawing on her classical folk,...

Mai Lê Grooves Bio:
Born in France, Mai Lê is an arts educator, dancer, choreographer, curator who relocated to Brooklyn in 2009.
In 2013 she joined the Philadelphia-based street dance theater company Rennie Harris Pure Movement, performing and/or teaching throughout the United States (Lincoln Center, Apollo Theater, LA Music Center),...

New York/Trinidad based artist Makeda Thomas has emerged as a dancer, choreographer, educator and curator on three continents. Graça Machel, Former First Lady of South Africa and Mozambique is the Honorary Patron of her internationally acclaimed 2005 work, A Sense of Place, which was commissioned by 651 ARTS Black Dance:...

Makers Dance Company is an organization dedicated to the growth of art through the display of dance and theatrics on different stages, films, and media platforms. Makers Dance Company was founded in 2017 by creative artist and American Ballet Theatre Soloist Alexandre Hammoudi.
Comprised of dancers and collaborators from all around...

Malcolm Low was selected in 2011 for a Choreographic Fellowship in Robert Battle’s New Directions Choreography Lab at Alvin Ailey. Originally from Chicago where he first trained with Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Homer Bryant and the Ruth Page Foundation, Malcolm went on to...

A prize winner in numerous international music competitions, Marco Sartor has performed solo, chamber music and orchestral concerts in three continents to critics’ and public’s acclaim. His solo debut recording, Red, on Fleur de Son Classics, has also received accolades and broadcast on national radio. Sartor is also featured...

Mariana Valencia arrived in Brooklyn after studying dance and art history at Hampshire College in Massachusetts. Valencia's approach to choreography has developed from her curiosity in visual culture, travel and fashion. She makes installations and performances where visual research and choreographic...

My choreography currently looks at flatness. The floor is flat, we stand on it; the ground has shape we respond to it; the earth has depth we believe in it. I manipulate bodies from imagined worlds into concrete locations. I look for urbanity and spiritual iconography inside of suburban dreams....

Marie Al Fajr is a French choreographer based in France and Egypt who has journeyed as a dance researcher throughout North Africa and the Levant, closely collaborating with poets, musicians and historians in the region. Through Al Fajr Company, she produces and tours dance productions in Europe and the Arab...

Marie Lloyd Paspe is a native of Singapore and Philippines who grew up in Mississauga, ON, Canada, and Bellingham, MA. She received her early dance training from Jessica Wilson at MetroWest Ballet and graduated summa cum laude from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program in 2016, studying dance performance and...

In my work, intense, personal emotion attempts to escape its immediate physical environment, thus inducing uncanny sense of displacement. Surreal landscapes produced through juxtaposition of physical memory, fantasy, and projections on to the objects of perception, are materialized through distortion, movement in space initiated from the periphery, uneven rhythmical structures,...

Marijana CvetkoviÄ‡ MarkoviÄ‡ graduated from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Belgrade (Art History), completed her MA in Management in Culture and Cultural Policy at the University of Arts in Belgrade and Université Lyon 2 (France) and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Arts in...

Jordan Marinov’s dancing and acting have taken her around the world — from NYC to the Russian Embassy in D.C., to Cyprus. She has worked as a dancer, actress, choreographer and model for film, television, commercial, music video and concert works. She has had the pleasure of working with Kathryn Bigelow for HBO as an...

Marjani Forté-Saunders is a Mother, choreographer, performer, a collaborative artist, community organizer and most recently a 3 time Bessie award winning choreographer and performer, for my latest work Memoirs of a… Unicorn. Anchored in a steady collaboration with partner and composer Everett Asis Saunders (New Music USA Awardee), the...

Marjorie Morrison has spent over 15 years doing extensive work with the military. She is the author of the book, The Inside Battle: Our Military Mental Health Crisis, and has written numerous editorials on the field of military mental health featured in TIME, Newsweek,The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post....

Mark Stuart most recently served as the Associate Choreographer of BANDSTAND on Broadway (TONY Award Best Choreography). As Producing Artistic Director of Mark Stuart Dance Theatre he Created, Directed, and Choreographed the award nominated Off-Broadway dance-musical *STANDARD TIME: When Change Comes*. Stuart’s award winning choreography and performances have been featured...

Matthew Gamble (Baritone) American Baritone Matthew Gamble has established himself as an artist of rare versatility, while his young career continues to grow with theatres in both North America and Europe. Recent and future engagements include debuts with the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, Lorin...

Founded in 2007, MAWU is an all-female crew and dance company born out of New York’s underground house scene, whose mission is to embody strong, positive images of women in the street dance community, and to create fierce and creative works that will both educate and inspire new audiences. More...

Biography
Maya Ciarrocchi is a New York City-based video artist. Her work has been exhibited in New York at: Chashama; the Chocolate Factory; Dance Theater Workshop; the 2010 Governor’s Island Art Fair; School of Visual Arts; Westbeth Gallery; Sasha Wolf Gallery and: Borderlines...

Meg Stuart Biography
Meg Stuart (U.S.A.) is a choreographer and dancer living and working in Brussels and Berlin. In 1986 she received her BFA in dance at New York University and continued her training following classes in Release technique and Contact Improvisation at the dance laboratory Movement Research (New York). In...

MELD
Mat Elder is a NYC and DC-based choreographer. He received a Bachelor of Science in Theater and Dance from Middle Tennessee State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Choreography from Smith College. He’s currently working towards a Master of Social Work at Hunter College, NYC.

Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, music theater works, films and installations. A pioneer in what is now called “extended vocal technique” and “interdisciplinary performance,” Monk creates works that thrive at the intersection of music and movement, image and object, light and sound in...

Michael Azerrad, Editor in Chief, the Talkhouse, and Editor, Talkhouse Music,is the author of Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 and Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana. He is a former contributing editor for Rolling Stone and wrote countless pieces for...

Michelle Boulé is a choreographer, performer, teacher and Certified BodyTalk Practitioner based in New York. Her work has received commissions and presentations from The Chocolate Factory, Danspace Project, River to River Festival, American Realness, ISSUE Project Room (Emerging Artist Commission), Mount Tremper Arts Festival, Dance and Process at The Kitchen,...

Michelle Jones is a first-year doctoral student in the American Studies program New York University. She is a Research Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for American Studies at Harvard University. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Ball State University. Following graduation, Michelle completed a four-year seminary ministerial...

Miguel Gutierrez lives in Brooklyn and makes performances. He has been called “one of our most provocative and necessary artistic voices” by Eva Yaa Asantewaa at Dance Magazine. His work engages persistent philosophical questions about the search for meaning and joins a legacy of process-focused experimental dance while drawing on...

Mike Daisey has been hailed as “the master storyteller” and “one of the finest solo performers of his generation” by The New York Times, is the preeminent monologist in the American theater today. He has been compared to a modern-day Mark Twain and a latter-day Orson Welles for his provocative monologues that...

Mimi Garrard (choreographer) studied and then danced with Alwin Nikolais, who produced her concerts at the Henry Street Playhouse for ten years. She then toured under the National Endowment Touring Program for many years. In collaboration with James Seawright, her work was commissioned for CBS Camera Three and WGBH Boston...

Ms. Barbosa founded Miriam Barbosa Dance formerly known as South Carolina Contemporary Dance Company since 2007. She holds an MFA in Architecture & Urbanism – University of Fine Arts, Brazil, where she also received her Classical Ballet Training. In 1991, she was awarded a Martha Graham Scholarship and performed with...

Mitzi and the Muscletones is a combination live action and animated interactive multi-media series designed to inspire kids ages six to nine to move their bodies and not just their thumbs.
As artists, parents, and avid media hounds, choreographer/dancer/writer Michele Kadison and jewelry designer/high creative Pauletta Brooks got together one day...

Piper Anderson is writer, educator and Chief Creative Strategist at Create Forward, a consultancy specializing in cultivating creative strategies for social change sourced from our collective radical imagination. She founded Create Forward after 15 years cultivating her creative practice devising local and national initiatives to creatively engage communities in response...

Molissa Fenley has created 75 dance works during her continuing career. Her work has been presented throughout the United States, South America, Europe, Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and has been commissioned by the American Dance Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival,...

Artist Statement:
As a choreographer it is my duty to present works that speak to the human experience. I choreograph in relation to the physical and emotional connection of a human life in an effort to create dialogue that can heal, nurture, inspire, question and/or change the very existence and perceptions...

Molly Lieber dances, choreographs, teaches, and practices yoga in NYC. Her classes explore the stillness and the movement within the asana poses, how to stay firmly planted in this crazy earth while consciously floating up into the clouds, and making as much space as possible within yourself, for your self....

Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith have been making experimental dances in New York since 2006. Focused on the bodily desire to heal oneself in connection with others, their work is an equal collaboration between the two choreographers, always performed by Molly and Eleanor. Recent works include: Basketball (PS122...

Molly Poerstel is a dance artist who has been active in the New York City dance community for the past fourteen years. Within this time, she has worked as a collaborator and dancer for Mark Jarecke, David Dorfman Dance Company (05-09) Susan Rethorst, Alex Escalante, Hilary Clark, Larissa Valez-Jackson,...

Monteleone Dance is a research based dance company that presents highly conceptual multimedia dance works. The company has already received high acclaim for its innovative and idiosyncratic movement language. Through this distinctly researched vocabulary, alongside interdisciplinary collaboration, the artists investigate the beclouded realm between man and machine, organism and...

Moriah Evans’ choreographic work has been presented at Danspace Project, the Kitchen, MoMA/PS1, Judson Church, AUNTS, American Realness, BAX, DNA, The New Museum, The Chocolate Factory, Dixon Place, CalIT2, Kamp Nagel and Theatre de l’Usine. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Performance Journal and has been involved with the publication since 2009....

Born in New York City, but raised in both NYC and Israel, Nadine Bommer brings a unique perspective to contemporary dance in a fruitful career that has spanned the globe. Her work utilizes her signature technique, the Nadine Bommer Method, to build enchanting characters in imaginative stories in performative and...

Nat Ward is a photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from Columbia University in 2013 and was a resident in the Sharpe Wallentas Studio Program from 2015-16. He has exhibited internationally since 2008 with work in exhibitions presented by The Jewish Museum, Rail Curatorial Projects, and The...